Customize Campus District Artists
This past summer, we worked with CleAR Experiences to help bring three local artist’s original designs to life, using AR installations throughout Campus District. The intention of the installation is to expose users to ways our public landscape can be improved to better serve the people who spend time there. AR graphics allow users to engage directly with the sites in person or in the comfort of their own homes. We are proud to announce our winners:
Gwendolyn Garth for the East 22nd Street Bridge.
Gwendolyn Garth
Gwendolyn Garth is a native Cleveland artist, whose lived experiences are derived from being reared in 4 of Cleveland’s Eastside neighborhoods: Hough, Central, Fairfax and Glenville- in that order. Gwendolyn currently resides in the Central Neighborhood. “My real work will always be about reinventing communities and perceptions about the people in those communities. I will continuously do so by employing the therapeutic value of art and by thinking and working holistically, and engage with others through collaboration and transparency.”
Andrea L. Johnson and Stephen Greenberg for the East 22nd Street and Euclid Avenue CSU Parking Garage.
Andrea L. Johnson
Andrea L. Johnson is a retired law professor, turned glass mosaic artist and philanthropist. Johnson and her family have deep roots in Central. Johnson has sponsored scholarships in allied health at Tri-C, where her father was past board chair, Dr. H. Andrew Johnson III. His dental practice has been in St Vincent Charity Medical Center for over 20 years, before passing it to her brother, Dr. H. Andrew Johnson IV., who remains at that location in Central.
Johnson seeks to capture the duality of our hopes and dreams against a backdrop of pain and suffering to help communities, like Central in Cleveland, Ohio heal and create windows into a better place. Using a variety of mixed media, the works she inspires in the people who create them, gives voice and hope to the invisible and often overlooked segment of our population: the poor, disabled, forgotten, and discarded. In her latest installations, entitled Hands Across Central, and Becoming Unmasked, Johnson focuses on the duality of love, hope and perseverance in the backdrop of violence and desolation. The Hands represent the hope; the Masks represent the reality and the aspiration for the future. This collage highlights the people behind the hands and masks in the beauty of the garden.
Stephen Greenberg
For this project, Ms. Johnson collaborated with Stephen Greenberg. Mr. Greenberg studied photography and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute. For many years he made stained glass windows in Santa Cruz, California; followed by a dozen years working as a Production Designer in movies and TV. After 6 years as a screenwriter living in Madrid, he moved to Cleveland and worked at the C.C.B.D.D, working with adults with developmental disabilities; focusing on art. After obtaining a B.A. in Psychology at Ursuline and an M.A. in Nonprofit Administration at John Carroll, Mr. Greenberg worked for a nonprofit in C.M.S.D., partnering with AmeriCorps and students as they created projects in their schools and communities that addressed the SDoH and health disparities. These schools included John Hay School of Science and Medicine and Early College, MLK, Collinwood, Ginn Academy, New Tech East, Lincoln West, Harvey, Warrensville, MC2, and Marshall. He has been documenting, via photographs and video; student and community projects in Cleveland for the past 8 years. His background in narrative film causes him to always search for genuine emotional moments that move people to change things. “It is in these personal moments where the heart of the story lies.”
Jessica Scott for the former Juvenile Court Building
Jessica Scott
Jessica Scott is a graphic designer and digital artist, who grew up drawing and painting. Doodling like this piece is how she calms her mind after a hard day's work. You can find more on Jessica and her portfolio on her website www.jrscottdesign.com
Reimagine Your Community
While the above installations highlight how art can improve the already standing structures around Campus District, together with CleAR Experiences, we created two more installations to help individuals envision community assets and how they can bring life to the Campus District.
Midway Bike Boulevard: The Midway is a landscape-buffered, two-directional center lane for bike use only. NOACA has allocated $8.3 million for construction for the first leg of the project and will run from Public Square to E. 55th Street, along Superior Avenue and through the Superior Arts District. The Midway offers continuous physical protection between cyclists and passing motor vehicles. Our effect will help you envision this new community asset! Try on each of the five different helmets, created by Tri-C students of Angela Berlingeri’s “Animation for Web” class.
Sankofa Village Phase 3: while phase 1 and 2 of Sankofa Village are available to community members already, our AR installation allows you to imagine a funky, more vibrant touch to Sankofa Village. Located right in the heart of Campus District, use our AR installation to reimagine Sankofa Village Phase 3 as they complete the construction.
CleAR Experiences
Tom Masaveg is a local public artist specializing in augmented reality installations and graphite works on paper. He's the Program Manager for Heights Arts, Environmental Educator for Holden Forests & Gardens, and owner of CleAR Experiences. He's always working to find ways that art blends with technology to educate people and offer them a sense of connection to the places within their local environment.
ART Competition Judges
Shannon Yarbrough
Shannon is an Occupational Therapist & Reiki practitioner, and a graduate with a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from CSU. Currently working at St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Shannon’s experiences have led her to work with many populations, including geriatrics, pediatrics, and adolescents, in a variety of settings, including schools, clinics and in home treatment.
Jennifer N. Nickler
Jennifer has spent her entire professional career utilizing her skills to support Cleveland’s thriving healthcare and medical education industries. Currently serving St. Vincent Charity Hospital as the coordinator of Graduate Medical Education and the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Jennifer has also pursued her lifelong love for arts and literature, launching her own business this past year, Artful One, LLC. Community and public art projects are where Jennifer likes to share her artistic talents the most. She believes wholeheartedly in art’s magical capacity to bring beauty, hope and healing to human beings. Since many people will never step foot in an art museum, she likes to lend her hands to bringing art out into the community where it can benefit and impact more people.
Briana Cannada